Below is a free essay on "trees our best friends" from Anti Essays, your source for free research papers, essays, and term paper examples. A friend always does a good to us even if we do harm to him. Similarly, tree gives us fruits when we throw stones at it. So a tree is our friend. All our food comes directly or indirectly from trees. Food grains, cereals, vegetables and fruits are supplied by trees. Even non-vegetarian food comes indirectly from trees, because animal live on grass, and other parts of trees. Besides food, trees provide important raw materials such a wood, cotton, jute, wood pulp to make paper, rubber an turpentine for our industries. Industries provide employment to people. We also get many valuable medicines from trees and tree products. We get so many things from forests that forest are rightly known as green gold .Trees provide shade to tin travelers and animals and shelter to innumerable birds and insects. Trees keep the environment clean. They take away the harmful carbon dioxide from the air and give oxygen. In this way they reduce air pollution. Forests retain humidity and attract rains. There will be no rain if there are no trees. Trees check strong currents of wind and water and then prevent soil erosion. They thus help to preserve soil fertility. They prevent the fury of floods. Roots of trees keep the water below soil clean. In fact, all our basic necessities, viz., air, water, food, clothing and shelter come directly or indirectly from trees. owe, our very existence to trees. Life would be unthinkable without trees. If there were no trees, there would be no rain and land w turn into an arid desert. Mankind will perish, for want of f drinking water, fresh air and sufficient humidity. So we should ever remain grateful to trees. To conserve existing trees should our prime and urgent duty. Reckless felling of trees and min destruction of forests should be made a crime punishable utmost severity. Since Jagdishchandra Bose Discovered...

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